A. Vania Apkarian

Research interests

Publications

• Targeted Muscle Reinnervation Treats Neuroma and Phantom Pain in Major Limb Amputees

  Annals of Surgery · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1097/sla.0000000000003088

• The Emotional Brain as a Predictor and Amplifier of Chronic Pain

  Journal of Dental Research · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1177/0022034516638027

• Corticolimbic anatomical characteristics predetermine risk for chronic pain

  Brain · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/aww100

• Nociception, Pain, Negative Moods, and Behavior Selection

  Neuron · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.06.005

• Functional Reorganization of the Default Mode Network across Chronic Pain Conditions

  PLoS ONE · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0106133

• Brain white matter structural properties predict transition to chronic pain

  Pain · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2013.06.044

• Shape shifting pain: chronification of back pain shifts brain representation from nociceptive to emotional circuits

  Brain · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awt211

• Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain

  Nature Neuroscience · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3153

• Abnormalities in Hippocampal Functioning with Persistent Pain

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0587-12.2012

• Brain Morphological Signatures for Chronic Pain

  PLoS ONE · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026010

• Anatomical and Functional Assemblies of Brain BOLD Oscillations

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1296-11.2011

• The Cortical Rhythms of Chronic Back Pain

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1984-11.2011

• Pain and the brain: Specificity and plasticity of the brain in clinical chronic pain

  Pain · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2010.11.010

• Predicting Value of Pain and Analgesia: Nucleus Accumbens Response to Noxious Stimuli Changes in the Presence of Chronic Pain

  Neuron · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2010.03.002

• Morphological and functional reorganization of rat medial prefrontal cortex in neuropathic pain

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0809897106

• Beyond Feeling: Chronic Pain Hurts the Brain, Disrupting the Default-Mode Network Dynamics

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4123-07.2008

• The Brain in Chronic CRPS Pain: Abnormal Gray-White Matter Interactions in Emotional and Autonomic Regions

  Neuron · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2008.08.022

• Towards a theory of chronic pain

  Progress in Neurobiology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2008.09.018

• Chronic Pain and the Emotional Brain: Specific Brain Activity Associated with Spontaneous Fluctuations of Intensity of Chronic Back Pain

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.3576-06.2006

• Human brain mechanisms of pain perception and regulation in health and disease

  European Journal of Pain · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpain.2004.11.001

• Scale-Free Brain Functional Networks

  Physical Review Letters · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.94.018102

• Chronic pain patients are impaired on an emotional decision-making task

  Pain · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2003.12.015

• Chronic Back Pain Is Associated with Decreased Prefrontal and Thalamic Gray Matter Density

  Journal of Neuroscience · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.2541-04.2004

• Abnormal brain chemistry in chronic back pain: an in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study

  Pain · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3959(00)00340-7

• Cortical representation of pain: functional characterization of nociceptive areas near the lateral sulcus

  Pain · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3959(00)00350-x

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